What Can Drupal Do For You?

What Can Drupal Do For You? “Drupal is wildly popular because it provides a powerful, scalable, low cost, high value solution to manage and grow an internet presence.” ~cmswebsiteservices.com

About Aubrey - Who is she? Aubrey Sambor • drupal.org: starshaped • twitter: @starshaped • blog: star-shaped.org • Web Developer at MicroArts Creative Agency

Benefits of a CMS • Separation of Design, Functionality, Content o Each layer can be edited independent of the other layers • Allows content editors to create, edit & publish without technical skills • Create roles with different access permissions • Allow visitors to create their own content • Easily organize your site into categories or by content types • Navigation can be dynamically generated

What is Drupal? http://youtu.be/rF1X12PE6PY

Why Drupal? • I am a developer: o Easy to install and get running - drupal.org o Possible to accomplish anything  Robust platform with APIs  Easy to extend  4000 contributed modules - drupal.org/project/modules o Open source software means incremental releases tested by the community o Well structured system allows for new features to be added in phases

Why Drupal? • I am a designer: o Well structured theme system using CSS and standards. o Possible to accomplish anything  Robust platform with APIs  Easy to extend  4000 contributed modules - drupal.org/project/modules

Why Drupal? • I am an IT decision maker: o Open Source means no licensing fees o Possible to accomplish anything  Robust platform with APIs  Easy to extend  4000 contributed modules - drupal.org/project/modules

Why Drupal? • I am a blogger: o Wordpress is a great blog tool... but it's only a blog tool. o Possible to accomplish anything  Robust platform with APIs  Easy to extend  4000 contributed modules - drupal.org/project/modules

Why Drupal? • I am a media person: o Drupal can handle it all: video, audio, photos ... o Possible to accomplish anything  Robust platform with APIs  Easy to extend  4000 contributed modules - drupal.org/project/modules

The Community • Incredibly talented and passionate o drupal.org/support o groups.drupal.org • DrupalCons (North America & Europe) o drupalcon.org • Regional Drupal Camps o Boston, Montreal, NH! o DrupalCamp NH held this past May • Local Drupal Meetups o groups.drupal.org

Drupal Usage Current version = 6.19 Version 7 is in beta! Yay! Projected release date: November 7 http://buytaert.net/drupal-6-growth

Drupal.org redesign From old:

Drupal.org redesign To new!

Drupal.org redesign • Redesign live just a few days ago! • Redesign process began in late 2008 • Cleaner, more modern design • Broader client appeal • Easier to promote Drupal with new design

Who Uses Drupal? Not just Software Developers like...

Ubuntu Linux

Firefox

AOL (?!)

Lucas Arts

Who Uses Drupal? Schools and Universities from coast to coast....

Harvard

Oregon State University

Who Uses Drupal? Media from old to new like...

Who Uses Drupal? Magazines... Newspapers... Radio...

From Conservative old school...

to Progressive old school

From Popular Science...

to Computer Science

Newspapers are getting Drupal-ed...

Who Uses Drupal? Radio... Podcasters... Videocasters...

From Public Radio...

to Radio Personalities...

to large scale Videocasting

Who Uses Drupal? Musicians...

From Britney Spears...

to the Grateful Dead

Who Uses Drupal? Social causes....

World wide....

from Big Problems....

to smaller local sites...

Who Uses Drupal? Government...

from the Big...

to the small town...

From the Left...

To the Right...

and all points independent...

to Special Interest Groups...

Simple enough for nontechs to use...

Yet powerful enough to do it all...

Who Uses Drupal? People are even using Drupal as a platform for new apps...

Open Atrium

Drupal Gardens

Questions? Right now, you're thinking about how you might be able to use Drupal.... Let's talk about that!!! We can help you find answers...

About Aubrey - Who is she? Aubrey Sambor • drupal.org: starshaped • twitter: @starshaped • blog: star-shaped.org • Web Developer at MicroArts Creative Agency

Presentation notes... Thanks to Seth Cohn (@sethcohn) and Michelle Lauer (@bymiche) for use of these slides! Presentation URL will be posted later in the day

What Can Drupal Do For You?

by Aubrey Sambor on Oct 24, 2010

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